Does iTunes 9 Use WebKit

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Looks like it.

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iTunes 9: LPs, Home Sharing, Redesign and More

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Today Steve Jobs made a surprise appearance at the media event and announced iTunes 9. It’s packed full of new features including a major overhaul of the iTunes Store. Read on for details on all the updates.

iTunes LP

One of the downsides of digital music has been the lack of interactivity that you once got from handling album packaging. Apple has brought their own version of this back and its calling it iTunes LP.

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iTunes LP is a way to interactive with new content including videos, photos, lyrics, discography, liner notes and more. Many of the LPs were created by the artists themselves.

Home Sharing

Home Sharing makes home networking work for you in that you can now share music, shows, and movies with up to five other authorized computers on you network. Secretly digging that new Britney Spears album your sister bought? Just grab it from her iTunes library and move it to yours. And then promptly punch yourself in the face for every digging Britney Spears.

iTunes Store Redesign

The iTunes store has been needing a facelift for quite a while. And a facelift it most certainly received!

Everything from the home page to artist pages, album pages, TV shows, and movie pages all received a major redesign.

In addition to the redesign is a new feature (one that I’ve wanted since the store debuted) called Wish List…and it’s exactly what you think it is. You can now add albums, songs, movies, shows to your Wish List to check out later and possibly purchase.

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Genius Mixes

The iTunes Genius got a bit of an upgrade with a new featured called “Genius Mixes.” Genius Mixes automatically creates up to a dozen mixes of songs that it thinks would go great together.

App Organization

A much requested feature has been the ability to organize apps right in iTunes instead of fumbling through a half dozen screens trying to move tiny icons around with your finger. Now you can do just that.

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Overall this is a much needed, and much welcomed update to iTunes and the iTunes Store. What are your favorite updates so far?

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Dell teases 0.4in Adamo XPS ultraportable

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Mozilla-based Postbox e-mail software launches

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Postbox has launched a new self-named, Mozilla-based e-mail application. The...

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iPod Nano Gains Camera, Microphone and Speaker,
Larger Screen

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ipod_nano So it seems like case manufacturers were only half right when it came to their designs for new iPods. The iPod touch didn’t get a camera at today’s special “Rock and Roll” Apple event, but the iPod nano did.

Not only that, but it also got a built-in mic and speaker, which makes sense when you consider that people will be using it to record video. Yes, the camera it received is not just for stills, and is intended to position Apple’s svelte media player as a direct competitor with the Flip portable video recorder.

Video Camera

New nano owners will be able to record up to eight or 16 hours of video, depending on whether they opt for the 8 or 16GB version. You won’t have to squint quite as much to review your footage, either, thanks to the new 2.2-inch 240×376 pixel TFT display. Video will record at 640×480 pixels, at up to 30 FPS. It’ll be H.264 VGA formatted with AAC audio.

It’s not HD, but it’s also much smaller and cheaper than Flip’s HD offerings. Flip’s SD cameras offer similar quality to the new iPod nano, at the same price as the 4GB model, but without the media player functions, and with far, far less onboard storage.

Video can also be recorded with a variety of iSight-style special effects and filters, including Sepia, Motion Blur, Mirror, etc. Once synced with your Mac via iPhoto, it’s easy to share and publish your recordings to Facebook, MobileMe, and YouTube automatically, without any third-party conversion required.

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Voice Recording and VoiceOver

Video isn’t the only new trick in the nano’s bag, either. It gains the VoiceOver functionality first introduced by necessity in the button-less and display-less iPod shuffle, and gets a Voice Recorder app like the iPhone and iPod touch.

FM Tuner and Tagging

There’s also a built-in FM tuner that not only allows you to listen to FM radio, but actually displays track and artist information for what you’re hearing. Plus, you can Live Pause, which if you have a PVR is like pausing, rewinding, and fast-forwarding live television, except with FM broadcasts. The iPod nano automatically stores up to 15 minutes of what you’re listening to for rewind purposes.

You can also tag tracks using the nano’s click wheel so that you can preview or buy them the next time you sync your device. Beware, though, the tagging feature is only available in the U.S. as of now, and only on stations that support it.

Pedometer

Finally, there’s a new built-in pedometer so you can track your daily steps. You can set a daily goal through the pedometer app, or just set it to “Always On.” No word on how this will affect battery life, but I can’t imagine it will help it.

The new iPod nano is available today in a variety of colors and in 8GB and 16GB formats, priced at $149 and $179 respectively. As of this writing, all models are showing a 24-hour shipping window. I’m definitely intrigued, but I think I’ll wait until reports of camera performance start to roll in.

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Nano Gets Video Camera

post from Daring Fireball on 09 September 2009 02:44:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

But — contrary to rumors, my own sources, and common sense — the iPod Touch does not.

Interesting to note how the Touch is now billed: “a great iPod, a great pocket computer, a great portable game player”.

The new FM tuner in the Nano has a TiVo-esque live pause feature, and lets you “tag” songs you hear for identification in iTunes when you’re back at your computer.

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Fifth-gen iPod nano adopts camera, FM radio

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Apple intros iPod touch without built-in camera

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Apple outs 160GB iPod classic, colored iPod
shuffle

As part of its music event, Apple on Wednesday refreshed the iPod classic and third-generati...

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Mac GUI Releases Vault - Retro Apple Computing
Archive

Mac GUI, a web site originally focused on Mac interface customization, is proud to announce the availability of Mac GUI Vault, a comprehensive resource for retro Apple II and Macintosh computing spanning from 1978 to 1998. Mac GUI Vault includes software for, photos of, and text files on most every facet of vintage Apple computers. Contributions to Mac GUI Vault are welcome in the form of photos for the museum, text files for the library, and software for the collection.

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